Somerville, MA — March 17, 2015 —SmartBear Software, the choice of more than two million software professionals for building and delivering the world’s best applications, is sponsoring an API Craft Boston meetup with guest speakers from Akana, formerly SOA Software, on Tuesday, March 24, 2015 at SmartBear’s new headquarters location in Somerville, Massachusetts. Akana’s Laura Heritage, Director of API Strategy; Hussain Chinoy, Technical Architect and Ian Goldsmith, VP Product Management are providing an overview of Microservice architecture and how it impacts the design, development and testing of APIs. Register at: http://www.meetup.com/API-Craft-Boston/events/220465327/.

With the rise in Microservice adoption across many organizations, there is even more emphasis being placed on APIs. Guest speakers from Akana, along with attendees, are having open discussion around the evolving topic of APIs. Akana is a leading provider of API Management, SOA Governance and Cloud Integration solutions.

API Craft Boston is a vibrant community of individual API practitioners who see building APIs as a craft. The goal is to drive leadership and open discussion in the API development space, moving toward a more connected world. The group represents their own individual opinions, and not that of employers or anyone else. Meetups are not open to posts from vendors who are promoting their products or spamming recruiters.

As the Director of API Strategy at Akana, Laura Heritage establishes API strategies which span from internal to partner, mobile and external, working with customers to establish their business case for APIs, providing guidance and assisting in the implementation of strategy. Hussain Chinoy is the primary technical interface for prospective clients in various vertical markets, providing API best practices, architecture and design sessions and API business strategy discussions. Ian Goldsmith has been VP Product Management at SOA Software for more than a decade.

Lorinda Brandon, Director, API Partner Development at SmartBear, organizes various API Craft Boston meetups. She has worked in various management roles in the high tech industry including customer service, quality assurance and engineering. She is a strong advocate for women in IT, promoting the importance of closing the gender gap for upcoming generations. Follow her on Twitter @lindybrandon.

About SmartBear Software

Supporting more than six million software professionals and over 22,000 companies in 194 countries, SmartBear is the leader in software quality tools for teams. The company’s products help deliver the highest quality and best performing software possible while helping teams ship code at nearly impossible velocities. With products for API testing, UI testing, code review and performance monitoring across mobile, web and desktop applications, SmartBear equips every development, testing and operations team member with the tools to ensure quality at every stage of the software cycle. For more information, visit: http://smartbear.com, or for the SmartBear community, go to: LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook.